Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid/Remote

Devopsroles; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Health, Vision, Dental

401k with company match

Parental leave

Job summary

NinjaTrader is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for trading platforms. You will mentor engineers, diagnose production issues, and automate deployments across web, mobile, and desktop environments. Hybrid schedule in Chicago with on-call rotation and security/compliance focus.

The role emphasizes Terraform-based provisioning, observability through Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, and collaboration with Product/Operations teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering or similar.
• Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go and automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Helm).
• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with networking and security knowledge.
• Monitoring/observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for the SRE function and mentor engineers.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate production issues to keep systems running.
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation including weekend deployments.
• Build tools to automate tasks, deployments, and incident responses.
• Design monitoring and alerting with SLOs across platforms.
• Use Terraform and IaC to automate provisioning and scaling.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and cross-functional teams.
• Implement security and compliance practices (SOC 2, PCI DSS).

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Go

Leadership

Automation

Security mindset

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

GitHub Actions

AWS

GCP

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

NinjaTrader is seeking a senior DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer to lead reliability initiatives for trading platforms. You will mentor engineers, diagnose production issues, and automate deployments across web, mobile, and desktop environments. Hybrid schedule in Chicago with on-call rotation and security/compliance focus.

The role emphasizes Terraform-based provisioning, observability through Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, and collaboration with Product/Operations teams.